Hi everyone,
I'm dealing with 2 messaging protocols: proto A and B.
Their messages are described in XML: proto-A-messages.xml and proto-B-messages.xml
Each message from proto A maps to one from proto B.
When I receive a proto-A-message I want to map it to a proto-B-message.
All I need to do is to instantiate the proto-B-message's XML structure and fill it in with values from the proto-A-message's XML.
My problem is that I would like to keep this flexible:
1 - Write these message mappings in a file (In any format. I guess XML/XSL would be good).
2 - Then use an existing Java tool that takes as inputs:
- The 2 XML messages (1 from proto A and one from proto B)
- The message mapping
and produces as output the proto-B-message with the values from proto-A-message as described in the mapping.
I thought of using XSLT but XSL only takes in 1 input (I guess proto-A-message) and then goes through it and applies the transformation.
This means that I would have to build proto-B-message inside the XSLT (mixing up XSL and the structure of proto-B-message).
Instead I don't want to mix XSLT code with the description of the structure of proto-B-message.
Do you know any tool that can help me with this?
Thank you.
Regards.